Synopsis for “Nefi-Kare”
Dr. Andre Folland, an Egyptologist, has just been kidnapped
by 4 street-wise criminals in Brooklyn. The one woman in the
group, Desidera, shows the ravages of long-term drug abuse.
She holds Folland at gunpoint while he is forced to drive to this
gang’s Brooklyn hide-out. At the hide-out, a desperate
Desidera fills her heroine syringe with muddy oily street puddle
water, and injects. She needs a fix that quickly. The car-
jacking was captured on a parking lot security camera. At the
hideout, the gang meets up with their “boss”, a woman named
Pepper. They have just stolen from a museum, The Ray Of The
Sun, a beautiful ancient Egyptian ornament. One of the gang
members is an especially rough street type- Nikoli. Pepper
whispers to Nikoli that they stole this for a big operator, a man
they nickname “The Baby”. Folland notices that Desidera has a
big bizarre arrow shaped scar below her elbow. The police
track the gang to the hideout, and there is a bloody shoot-out.
In a scene that gives the end of Bonnie and Clyde a run for it’s
blood-soaked dollar, police shoot Desidera twenty-five times.
What’s left of Desidera falls five floors below to the sidewalk.
The gang escapes with The Ray Of The Sun.
At the hospital, the bloody pulp that was Desidera shows
vital signs- brainwaves and a heartbeat. Folland is an
Egyptologist who was to come to the museum to appraise The
Ray Of The Sun, and he still thinks about Desidera’s scar. He
watches a DVD of an old silent film, The Loves Of Nefi-Kare,
which follows the adventures of a lovely and daring princess.
He notices Nefi-Kare, who resembles Desidera, is to be
executed for stealing The Ray Of The Sun. The executioner
paints an the same arrow on Nefi-Kare’s arm- a guide for the
executioners arrow shaped blade. Folland shows this scene to
Amabo, figuring Desidera may of had an obsession with the
long dead Princess. Amabo tells Folland that Desidera is
recovering at an unheard of rate. Her cracks and breaks in her
bones are quickly healing, her destroyed organs are righting
themselves in about a day.
Folland notices two things- everything in Desidera is
healing, except for that executioner’s scar, also, Desidera is
taking a deformity Nefi-Kare had At the hospital, Folland shows
enough proof, comparison of Desidera’s new body and Nefi-
Kare’s mummy with a theory that Desidera is becoming Nefi-
Kare. That night, Lantoes and Folland check on Desidera/Nefi-
Kare. Her body is half bandaged, including her face. Nefi-
Kare wakes up, and tries to run from the hospital room on
wobbly legs and falls. Folland addresses her in Ancient
Egyptian as Nefi-Kare- she responds.
Nefi-Kare is visited in the hospital by Congressman Hornne, a
narcissistic blow-hard who cries when he talk about his own life
journey. Suddenly, she needs to see the television very badly.
All stations are covering a bizarre second Brooklyn disaster: a
strange ray of light has melted a truck like a Popsicle. (We
only see scrambled television coverage of this deadly event)
Nefi-Kare explains The Ray Of the Sun is a weapon that emits
a ferocious ray of intense heat. Via 1924 special effects, we
see how it works in the film The Loves Of Nefi-Kare. Her,
Amabo, Lantoes and Folland go to the Police nerve center for
the disaster- at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza. At the Plaza, with
news people all about, an Assassin, uses The Ray Of The Sun on
the people there. Nefi-Kare chases the Assassin, but he
escapes in a car driven by Pepper. The men figure these
attacks were demonstrations to whoever they stole this for,
obviously to up the price. Amabo feels Nikoli was in on the
robbery but has no proof (The thieves kept Folland’s head mostly
covered) Nikoli once dated Desidera. They figure they’ll get
info on The Ray Of the Sun if they send Nefi-Kare back to Nikoli
as Desidera.